occupant

4 definitions found

occupant - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Occupant \Oc"cu*pant\, n. [L. occupans, p. pr. of occupare: cf.
     F. occupant. See Occupy.]
     1. One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the
        actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing;
        as, the occupant of the apartment is not at home.
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     Note: This word, in law, sometimes signifies one who takes
           the first possession of a thing that has no owner.
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     2. A prostitute. [Obs.] --Marston.
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occupant - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  occupant
      n 1: someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged
           period or who was born there [syn: resident, occupant,
           occupier] [ant: nonresident]

occupant - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  OCCUPANT or OCCUPIER. One who has the actual use or possession of a thing. 
       2. He derives his title of occupancy either by taking possession of a 
  thing without an owner, or by purchase, or gift of the thing from the owner, 
  or it descends to him by due course of law. 
       3. When the occupiers of a house are entitled to a privilege in 
  consequence of such occupation, as to pass along a way, to enjoy a pew, and 
  the like, a person who occupies a part of such house, however small, is 
  entitled to some right, and cannot be deprived of it. 2 B. & A. 164; S. C. 
  Eng. C. L. R. 50; 1 Chit. Pr. 209, 210; 4 Com. Dig. 64; 5 Com. Dig. 199. 
  
  

occupant - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "occupant":
     addressee, artist-in-residence, boarder, denizen, dweller,
     habitant, hirer, homesteader, house detective, householder,
     incumbent, inhabitant, inhabiter, inmate, inpatient, intern,
     leaseholder, lessee, live-in maid, liver, locum tenens, lodger,
     occupier, owner, paying guest, renter, residencer, resident,
     resident physician, residentiary, resider, roomer, sojourner,
     squatter, sublessee, subtenant, tenant, tenant at sufferance,
     tenant for life, underlessee